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Housing Program for Kaleidoscope Youth Center

Kaleidoscope Youth Center (KYC) is excited to announce that we are now directly serving and supporting homeless and housing insecure LGBTQIA+ youth and young adults with the introduction of three new housing programs! Since 1994, KYC…

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Call for police accountability at the Community MLK celebration

January 21, 2019- Ohio State Representative Bernadine Kennedy Kent called for greater police accountability at the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration and breakfast put on by the Police Officers for Equal Rights (POER) at the…

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Indigenous Leaders to Washington: Your Borders Cross Our People 8 a.m. Friday, January 19th

The Indigenous People's March comes to Washington today, and the snow-clad streets of the citadel of the American Empire are about to turn Red!


It might be mistaken for any other day. The slushy sidewalks are half full of sleepy eyed…

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Council Lets Big Money In

January 14, 2018 // Columbus City Council voted to allow individual campaign donors to give them, and other city office holder candidates $12,707.79 per year. In the last agenda item of the night, on Tuesday 14 January, the city established one…

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